Modernism in Valencia


Apartment building 2


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Location: La Paz St. 21, at Comedias.

Architect: Francisco de Mora y Berenguer.

Description: This building defines a corner. Great interest is the treatment that is given to the chamfer, with a bay window on the main floor and a curved loggia finished off with a dome on the last floor. The modernist details of the building are very well taken care of , stressing the movement of all the closing details of the building, the perimeter of the dome, lintels, railings, and balustrades or the green bevelled tiles used as veneer on the facade.


The Port Sheds



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Location: Avenue of the Port

Description: The most visible artistic elements in the port of Valencia are the " sheds " or certain parts of them.The first ship or part of each shed is decorated with the taste of the Valencian Modernism of the 1900, with adornments in relief, allusive and allegorical to the commerce and the sailing, ceramic mosaics, quality polychrome on typical Valencian topics.

Main object of the trade and the sailing in this port: oranges, grapes, other fruits, some spikes and diverse branches.

Building of the Marine Station: it is a building of rectangular plant and turrets. Its decoration has has a greater sobriety , with a crowning of cupolas.


The Ferrer house



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Location: Ciril Amoros, 29

Architect: Vicente Ferrer Pérez

Description: It is a four-height building, with a ground plant, whose main floor is clearly differentiated and two more plants for housings.Its has structure of bearing walls with arches and metallic beams.Each facade has it own sketching outline own, with its central symmetry axis and finish off curved, being articulated by means of the rupture of the composition in the corners, with very plane and vertical bodies.The vertical rhythm of the holes prevails, with different treatments according to the height.The exterior painted stucco is adorned with stony elements and ceramics carried out in work, using the entablature in form of white and green chess board design, glazed ceramic garland that crowns the building.The element to highlight, is the futurist and abstract attempts in the design of the wrought iron grills with vegetable and abstract motives made out of straight lines that converge in a point.



Apartment building 11


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Location:San Vicenta St. 1,/ The Reina Square, 5

Architect: Lucas García Cardona

Description: This construction consists of a ground plant, a mezzanine and four floors.It forms bevel (chamfer), and the façades are profusely decorated.Ornamental motives: Corinthian columns with Hellenistic adornments, with dancing figures, friezes with palms and ovals, and some impressive wooden bay windows with lathed posts, in the ends of the façade, with great wooden eaves finishing everything off.